OK, heres another story written by 2nd graders that I illustrated at 826 Valencia. The story concerns a giant caterpillar and her friends the wig wearing bald eagle and the toucan who loves to talk on her cel phone. They have there tickets to Texas Marine World Rodeo stolen by the cowboy-alien and enlist the help of a tough hyena to help get them back.
These were drawn in real-time as the kids came up with the story. Drawn first with a light blue Color-Erase pencil and then inked with a medium tip sharpie. The drawings are then reduced down on a xerox machine and pasted-up for the book which is combined with each students individual ending and bound into a book. Very cool.
The hyena at first looked more look a giant rat, and the kids told me so. So I quickly ripped off a piece of paper and drew a new head and taped it on.
